Sense 2separate, disunite, divide, part -- (force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea") => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")

Sense 6classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate -- (arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?") => categorize, categorise -- (place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize")

Sense 8separate, part, split up, split, break, break up -- (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up")

Sense 9separate, part, split -- (go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party") => move -- (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right")

Sense 12separate, divide, part -- (come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated") => change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")

Sense 13branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate -- (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks") => diverge -- (move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here")

Antonyms of adj separate

4 senses of separate

Sense 1separate (vs. joint) -- (independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church")

Sense 1separate (vs. joint) -- (independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church") => apart (predicate) -- (having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush) => asunder (predicate) -- (widely separated especially in space; "as wide asunder as pole from pole") => detached, isolated, separated, set-apart -- (being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling") => discrete, distinct -- (constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions") => disjoint -- (having no elements in common) => disjunct, isolated -- (marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly) => isolable -- (capable of being isolated or disjoined) => unaccompanied -- ((of a state or an event) taking place without something specified occurring at the same time; "a headache unaccompanied by other symptoms") Also See-> divided#1; independent#1; individual#1, single#1; other#1; segregated#1, unintegrated#2; unshared#1